Talk:Issues in anarchism

Merge back into Anarchism § Key issues?

Since this article is a summary style split from anarchism summarizing the key issues commonly discussed in sources Anarchism § Key issues, I'm left wondering why we need a separate article at all. Since this article largely summarizes the existing breakout articles we have on each topic, we could instead further summarize the gist of each and fit this within the aforementioned section rather than having both the Key issues section and this breakout article. czar 23:56, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

@Czar: Aye this could definitely be redirected to the section on the main article (not merged, there's nothing worth merging). This is a poorly-constructed, badly-sourced, meandering article without any reason to exist other than badly summarising other, better-quality articles. I could see a reason for this article to be recreated in the future, but it wouldn't look anything like this one. This article needs dynamite. --Grnrchst (talk) 10:47, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Out of date

Anarchists typically discourage the concept of left-wing theories of anarchism on grounds of redundancy and that it lends legitimacy to the notion that anarchism is compatible with capitalism or nationalism.

I get that this is what anarchists believe, but this position is completely out of date and incongruous with criticism of right-wing anarchism in the west, which explicitly believes that the state is "undesirable, unnecessary and harmful". Now, you can either accept this, and incorporate the huge body of work by writers like Jane Mayer, Anne Nelson, Nancy MacLean, and dozens of others, or you can continue to promote these out of date ideas and pretend that right-wing anarchism doesn't exist. It just makes you look out of touch. The west has a serious, ongoing problem with right-wing anarchism, and having the left say that it doesn't exist is extremely unhelpful, and frankly supports the right by failing to criticize it. Silence is complicity. Right-wing oligarchs in the west identify as anarchists, whether you choose to accept it or not. This position by left-anarchists reminds me very much of Christians who deny Christian nationalism exists. It's the same tendency. Viriditas (talk) 02:03, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

I had added a photo of a flag with circle-As at a right-aligned event in this article and at flag of England#English nationalism; both now removed since the photo isn't immediately material to the topic matter. Probably the idea to fold the overall article concept back into the main one is a good one, since the concept of a list of issues and anarchists' statements regarding them is better served by a Wikiquote theme page. Arlo James Barnes 20:41, 10 August 2024 (UTC)